A Teacher’s Thoughts

I had a brief conversation with the music teacher at our school yesterday. Her classroom is well equipped with computers and she has students work on projects using midi software. I suggested the idea of podcasting student projects and performances. The response was so positive. If you could see our school […]

Whenever I pull out my science frameworks, I am always amazed at the amount of content and the apparent unrelatedness of it all. I have worked with standards in three states and it seems to be the same each time. Training and best practice say to dig deeper but the standards, so broad […]

It has taken a while but I am starting to cross things off my to-do list. Going back and reading things I didn’t have time for earlier is an ever present item on this list. I don’t remember how I found my way to this article or how it found its way to […]

Some time back, Ray Gilmore, a gradate of our school had written a letter to the local paper. He was serving in the Army in Afghanistan in a remote region near the Iranian border. His mission was with the local people. He spent his days planning and guiding the building/rebuilding of various […]

When my students first began to use Bubbl.us they used it mainly for vocabulary or to organize their own thoughts around an idea. I took this approach to focus on the tool and get the novelty out of the way so we could return to thinking. After a few days, a student commented […]